Championship Manager 2010

The 3D match engine is pointless - Championship defenders fall over like they've been down the pub before the game. Goalkeepers at English Championship level are worse than Sunday League goalkeepers.

What's the point of a 3D match engine that isn't enjoyable to watch. Football Manager 2010 is a million times better than this rubbish, even FM2006 is much more enjoyable to play!

The user interface is unfriendly, players are overrated so badly that their value is up to 10 times higher than what they're actually worth, and that's at the statup of the game!

Don't buy this rubbish, FM2010 is better than FM2009, and every version of FM is better than this utter tripe!

Most people seem to love it or hate it. I could almost love it, but not quite.

Flaws:
1. It crashes to desktop too often.
2. I can't understand the training schedules.
3. The menu where you perform most actions is very clumsy, too small and not at all ergonomic.
4. 3D match engines - well, they're never any good are they? In this one, too many frustrating things happen, like players running away from the ball or dribbling it out into touch when under no pressure.
5. During a match, the 3D engine takes up the whole screen so you can't see the commentary or important messages from your assistant.
6. As far as I can see, you can't offer players to other teams unless they're already interested.
7. I invested in scouting many other countries, and the scout reports became too much like hard work. I would have liked to be able to say - don't tell me about the same player more than once. Don't tell me about players over 30. Etc etc - filters to cut down the amount of messages in my inbox.
8. Physio report bug - No matter how many times I request a physio report on a player, I never get one.
9. It's not easy enough to get players to switch positions.

Good points.
1. You can run it windowed.
2. Wasn't too slow even on my laptop. Admittedly it's a core2duo laptop with 4 gig of ram, but even so it's a laptop.
3. Addictive.

If they cured all the faults it would be a great game. Even if they just cured the crashing it would be good. If you do buy it, remember to save game often. I can't help thinking that if this game had been a labour of love, it would not have taken much extra effort to make it really shine. For whatever reason, they've left it full of bugs with a lame front end.

Up until the last few years i have alway been a massive CM fan, Downloaded the Demo, and found it was basically the same as the last 2 games realeased . Which i had major issues with. Since Eidos and SI games parted company CM games are just not the same. Stick to FM2010, as i am doing. Will never to back to play the Championship Manager games unless, it is drastically improved.

I thought I'd take advantage of buying CM2010 for £2.51 and, frankly, that's all it's worth. The benchmark for manager games is obviously the Football Manager series and with Football Manager 2009 being released so buggy last year, I wanted to give Championship Manager a shot, makes me wish I didn't.

I gave it plenty of time and effort, player stats are WAY off for a lot of players, some results are just weird and crazy and most annoyingly, players are smaller teams don't often seem to want to join larger teams.

I managed Rangers, and lets face it, in Scotland, any player outside the Old Firm would jump at the chance of joining Rangers or Celtic, and NOBODY would join me from Scottish teams, strangely, I could buy from pretty major European clubs though, it made no sense to me.

I pre-ordered Football Manager 2010 here on Play, so going to look forward to that for my Football Managing needs.

your gonna have your football manager players and your champman players stick to what you like its simple. fifa players always give PES a bad review and PES players give fifa a bad review same goes for managing games. ive played chamman for years and love it only ever played 1 fm game and didnt like it so my advice stick to what you like.